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TwiceHorn

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  1. This game seems to underscore the value of strength of schedule.
  2. Put it this way, you wouldn't think it was broken if you were on the wrong end of it. But these decisions, while not final, and subject to appeal, set the ground rules for further proceedings, for the most part, and sometimes those go faster than we might think. Trump hasn't won any of them since leaving office.
  3. One bummer about both of these opinions is that they are the result of motions to dismiss (the civil complaint in Blassingame and the indictment in Trump). And that means that in both cases, the allegations of the complaint and indictment must be taken as true. And that, in turn, means that both courts' review of the immunity question is somewhat limited to/by those circumstances. Which means there remains some wiggle room in both cases for Trump to assert immunity again. I don't think Trump will succeed with any of his immunity claims, but this is not the last we've heard of it.
  4. And that opinion. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67656604/171/united-states-v-trump/ Edit to add: Chutkan cites rather heavily to our own Texas Law Review, which apparently had a symposium in 2021 on executive immunity. Noice. 🤘
  5. Interesting to see non-local commercials in the waning days of LHN.
  6. Anything that's not complete condemnation of the fascist of the thread is defending said fascist, and all fascists for that matter, according to CaptainAnt. Even if you are discussing something completely tangential to the fascist.
  7. The immunity opinion. https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/A3464AEB2C1CB89985258A7800537E73/$file/22-5069-2029472.pdf And lo, what do ya know, a Trump appointee concurs in the opinion.
  8. Well, I don't know and it doesn't have to be illegal "per se." The monitoring is to detect if he is trying to evade the effects of the cancellation of his business licenses. Engoron can decide if there is something unseemly about it and make orders to stop future occurrences, if not "punish" past occurrences. But what is reported there is not, in and of itself, a crime, or even a violation of a court order exercising civil jurisdiction.
  9. Just to keep this factual, Jones is nothing more than a monitor. This is not, or at least not yet, criminal or even a civil violation. It's for Engoron's informational purposes only, basically. It's up to Engoron to decide is something is untoward and, if there is, there's every reason to believe that Trump will be sanctioned accordingly.
  10. Good deal. That's going to smooth the road to eliminating immunity from criminal liability and make Chutkan's job easier.
  11. Hideous hit percentages on both sides. Thanks Jenna.
  12. Was reading about this and this quote rang true: Still others have argued that Kissinger was, in the words of New Yorker essayist Thomas Meaney, “a far less remarkable figure than his supporters, his critics — and he himself — believed.” Rather than an outlier, Meaney and others have suggested, Kissinger was a consummate political actor and a natural product of the American war machine, . . . If it wasn't Kissenger it would have been someone else or elses.
  13. I railed against Obamacare at first. But, it provides some pretty sensible things.
  14. One ironical thing, though, is that you can draw a pretty straight line to "children of the 60s" and Trump voters, i.e. boomers. And, it wasn't the liberal politics of the 60s, per se, but a lot of the self-seeking and self-regard of various non-political movements that have gotten us in something of a pickle as a country
  15. Reality game show host. Otherwise, you're insulting Bob Barker, Alex Trebec and others (we'll ignore Chuck Woolery for a moment).
  16. Well, for one thing, medical debt is not negotiated in advance. If it was a matter of financing cancer treatment on agreed upon terms, that would be one thing. Medical debt more like losing a lawsuit. You know there is some cost associated with your activity, but you have little idea what it really is and whether it survives a cost benefit analysis.
  17. Yep you had alluded to doing this (at least the efficacy part) in the patent system, which is ill equipped to do, as it is or would be everywhere. The FDA or a related agency is absolutely the place to do it. It is much closer to their existing remit.
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